Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
I've seen worse this year. And better.

Name : Maggie Lee / Alias : Variety
A lazily executed dud padded out with infantile pranks, shambolic plot turns and knockabout action.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : Village Voice
What makes X-Men: Apocalypse so exciting isn't really any one thing but rather its cohesion, its storytelling verve.

Name : Ignatiy Vishnevetsky / Alias : AV Club
Yakuza Apocalypse is the kind of free-for-all only Miike could stage-pitting not merely different characters, but different genres and tones against each other, until the world cracks in two under the weight.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
For those fans who don't mind enduring some tedium and confusion, "Yakuza Apocalypse" at least offers something memorably bizarre.

Name : Michael Ordona / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse" is exactly what you'd expect. But better.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The result is a movie that's outrageous without being funny, and gruesome without being scary.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
It's all too dumb and ribald for most tastes, but if you liked all the zombie comedies that came before, well, here's another one.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Marks a shocking letdown from Singer's earlier contributions; what once soared now slogs.

Name : Alan Zilberman / Alias : Washington Post
This is not a great film, yet for the right audience it could be an entertaining one.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Lurid and nutso doesn't even begin to describe this opus. You have to see it to believe it . if you have the stomach for it.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The film falls prey to the zombie curse of excessive laddishness, but at least it finds room for a strong female character.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
No surprises here, just a seen-it-before world domination plot carried out by a petulant Pharaoh with a head like a chewed pencil.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
Disappointingly [succumbs] to an exhausting case of been-there-done-that-itis.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
This is turning into the season of superheroes battling other superheroes, but "X-Men: Apocalypse" is the first one, so far, to do it right.

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
Piece by piece, Singer fits this ninth film in the franchise (which includes Deadpool) into the X-Men universe like a master puzzle maker. He does it so well, at least in terms of storytelling, that the X-Men franchise still has a vigorous future.

Name : Liz Braun / Alias : Toronto Sun
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse manages to be a very good comedy, a scary adventure, a tale of friendship and a coming of age story, all rolled into one.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
[A] numbingly idiotic vampire yakuza tale.

Name : Ben Sachs / Alias : Chicago Reader
Directed by the inimitable Takashi Miike. Apocalypse finds the 55-year-old filmmaker at his silliest, which is saying a lot, as he's responsible for some of the silliest movies ever made.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
If your idea of a hot joke is a strip club called "Lawrence of Alabia," step right up to "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse," a horror-comedy that takes a weak premise (do high school boys even go scouting anymore?) and barely uses it, anyway.

Name : Manori Ravindran / Alias : Globe and Mail
It's the best public relations boost Scouting has had since it ended its ban on gay leaders, not to mention a pretty decent zombie film.

Name : Katie Rife / Alias : AV Club
We . get zombie diarrhea jokes, zombie fat jokes, zombie selfie jokes, zombie cat-lady jokes, and zombie stripper jokes. And when all of this starts to seem too crass, out come the cliched lessons .

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Despite the undeniable presence of a huge amount of action, X-Men: Apocalypse is decidedly a case of more is less.

Name : Noel Murray / Alias : Los Angeles Times
As horror, "Scouts Guide" is too frivolous to thrill. As comedy, it leans too much on scenes that see the teens groping big-breasted topless zombies or the beasties sexually molesting young girls.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The latest in the X-Men movie franchise is just X-meh.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Will make you want to punch the nearest teenage boy in the face.

Name : Nicolas Rapold / Alias : New York Times
By the end . you might be as punch-drunk as Kageyama in his final showdown, and too exhausted to care.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
Well, it's got that title going for it. So there's that.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
The Scouts save the day, but not the movie, in this witless zombie-comedy retread.

Name : Devan Coggan / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
After decades of well-trodden zombie tropes, a successful zombie movie has to be at least one of three things: a) original b) funny or c) actually scary. Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse doesn't earn a merit badge in any one of those categories.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Too often revels in juvenile gags involving poop and penises, but you can see shards of the film it might have been.

Name : Nick Schager / Alias : Village Voice
If you can get on its wacko wavelength, it's a uniquely crazed, compelling midnight-movie whatsit.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
The gags are mostly puerile and uninspired - like the film was dreamed up by a bunch of tired, wired 13-year-olds; it has their insistence but little of their invention.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Apocalypse isn't quite a dog. But it is a movie with way too much of everything except the things that should matter the most - novelty, creativity, and fun.

Name : Edward Douglas / Alias : New York Daily News
Unlike some of the cheesier remnants of the '80s, we'll probably want to see more of these new X-Men.

Name : Mike D'Angelo / Alias : AV Club
Gabriel, the first feature written and directed by Lou Howe, gives Culkin an opportunity to demonstrate serious range, and he takes full advantage; if this film doesn't ignite his career, it'll only be because too few people see it.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Gabriel's dilemma, though suitably heartbreaking, and goosed along by Patrick Higgins' tension-stringed score, ultimately becomes as wearisome to viewers as it is to his exhausted clan.

Name : Daniel M. Gold / Alias : New York Times
This film maintains its anxious themes throughout, which makes for some tedious stretches because the tension never breaks. Despite that, or maybe because of it, "Gabriel" is unexpectedly absorbing.

Name : Joe Neumaier / Alias : New York Daily News
Rory Culkin's turn in the deeply felt and haunting "Gabriel" is so powerful you can't look away.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The intense, uncomfortable drama's downbeat nature is offset to a degree by the sensitivity of its observation, but the film serves primarily as a showcase for the emotionally raw lead performance of Rory Culkin.